I keep track of my reading in The Story Graph app, which–if you haven’t checked it out–is, IMO, much nicer to use that Goodreads. I’m guessing the community is nowhere as big, but since I don’t really use it for social media, that’s not a problem for me.
Anyway, rather than list every book I read in 2024, I’m just going to list some of my favorites, including rereads I binged for multiple books in a series/by an author. (I did a LOT of rereading this year. Not sure why, although I tend to reread for comfort, and you can guess why I might have needed some of that, especially in the Fall.) You can also see my ongoing lists of favorites at Pinterest.
Picture Books
- Knight Owl written & illustrated by Christopher Denise
- A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion written by Mara Rockliff, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
- Miep and the Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who Rescued Anne Frank’s Diary written by Meeg Pincus, illustrated by Jordi Solano
- Nobody Hugs a Cactus written & illustrated by Carter Goodrich
- Small Things Mended written by Casey W. Robinson, illustrated by Nancy Whitesides
- Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott written by Mara Rockliff, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- She Sells Seashells: Mary Anning, an Unlikely Paleontologist written by Heidi E.Y. Stemple, illustrated by Emily Paik
- The Fighting Infantryman: The Story of Albert D.J. Cashier, Transgender Civil War Soldier written by Rob Sanders, illustrated by Nabi H. Ali
- The Bear Must Go On written by Dev Petty, illustrated by Brandon Todd.
Middle Grade
- The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko
- The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz
- Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
- Sincerely Sicily by Tamika Burgess
- The House with a Dragon in It written by Nick Lake, illustrated by Emily Gravett
- The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
YA/Adult (I started to separate these two categories, but when I looked at the list, it’s all crossover.)
- The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
- What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky, translated by Tess Lewis
- The Guncle by Steven Rowley
- The Murders in Great Diddling by Katarina Bivald
- The Vampire of King Street: A Mystery by Asha Grayling
Rereads (Links go to first book in the series)
- James Ponti’s City Spies series
- Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes series (and DO watch the movies!)
- Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic series
- Stuart Gibbs’ Charlie Thorne series
- Meg Cabot’s From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess series
- Jo Bannister’s Castlemere series
- Becky Albertalli’s Simonverse series
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